Reposted by hckr.studioMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 572214224176
Reposted by hckr.studioDan Hon @danhon.com · 02/10/2026guys I think we might be having a problem with rogue humans 4597
Reposted by hckr.studioJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Ah, but Jason, without seeing their AI harness, how can you be so sure it needs human intervention to be reliable?" The same way I don't need to check every horse to know that horses can't do calculus. 271
Reposted by hckr.studioDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Still true. Time to pre-order @timnitgebru.blacksky.app's new book, DEEP UNLEARNING: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...simonandschuster.comDeep UnlearningTimnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri... 17529
Reposted by hckr.studioCraig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Seriously, if you're not using Polypane for development, you're missing out. Highly recommended. 064
Reposted by hckr.studioLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359802001
Reposted by hckr.studioAlex Riviere @dangitalex.wtf · 25/09/2026I have been introduced to a new tool that is going to make me very very happy, and make many many designers scream out in terror. bastardica.mitpit.combastardica.mitpit.comBastardicaA type foundry for bastard web fonts. 8318
Reposted by hckr.studioKent Beck @kentbeck.com · 24/09/2026I don’t need a special tax on billionaires. I just need them to pay the same percentages that I pay. 5388
Reposted by hckr.studioJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worth remembering that some of the biggest beneficiaries of state welfare are landlords and shareholders 091
Reposted by hckr.studioMonteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We’re now at the “finding out” portion of the equation, and I’d be almost excited, except that a lot of good people lost their jobs over this bullshit, more than a few people died using this shit, and there won't be any consequences for the assholes who crammed it down everyone’s throats.futurism.com"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's WroughtShopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn't a pretty sight. 57817
Reposted by hckr.studioEuropean Students For Liberty @sfleurope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Europe is the global leader in freedom of press - 19 of the 20 countries with the freest media are on the continent, with the 20th being Canada. 103
Reposted by hckr.studioErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It is truly wild to see a software company do press releases about their software being shitty, unpredictable, and unreliable like that's a good thing. We have a word for this, and it's malware. 113633
Reposted by hckr.studioMia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 18/09/2026Schrodinger's engineers say their geiger counter wired to a hammer over the poison vial might decide to kill some cats. Obviously there's only one way to fix the problem. We urgently need to improve the moral alignment of the geiger counter, so it makes the right choice! 0201
Reposted by hckr.studioDave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I believe it was Steve Jobs who once said "Design is how shit moves around on the page when you scroll it." 2182
Reposted by hckr.studioMat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 14/09/2026Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.geoffgraham.meWhy CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff GrahamBecause I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that 619680
hckr.studio @hckr.studio · 11/09/2026Have some Dell R630 for sale. Please let me know if you are interested. 000
Reposted by hckr.studioThe Verge @theverge.com · 08/09/2026Subscribers of Anthropic’s Max plan ($100-200 per month) say they didn’t get what they thought they were paying for. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...theverge.comA new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power usersSome subscribers of Anthropic’s Max plan, which costs $100-200 per month, say they didn’t get what they thought they were paying for in a new expanded class-action lawsuit. 1305
Reposted by hckr.studioBrett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.brettcodes.comI'm done using AIWhy I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels. 783276943
Reposted by hckr.studioJake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 20/08/2026pretty wild how liberating it is to write code that just works in the browser without a build step 1337
Reposted by hckr.studioEncephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"You, too, would be wealthy," says the billionaire whose fortune is built on the exploitation of their workers and the theft of resources from the Global South, "if you woke up at 5 am, if you starved yourself, if you climbed Mount Everest and ran a marathon, if you gave up pleasure." 3/? 12211
Reposted by hckr.studioBruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I was listening to news about the Meta court case & some gibbertarian from Trumpistan said "If they regulate social media, the internet might never be the same again". You mean: no more addictive, algorithm-fed bullshit that profiles people to sell them footwear, fear and fascism? Good. Bring it on. 0184
Reposted by hckr.studioMia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 18/08/2026Sure sure, but counter point: an exact number of users (us) are users exactly like us. :) So keep that in mind too. And the users on your site might be different from the users on my site. There's no universal user, and they aren't entirely not me. 0122
Reposted by hckr.studioExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 17/08/2026Socratic Religion existentialcomics.com/comic/668existentialcomics.comSocratic ReligionA philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes 613838
Reposted by hckr.studioBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 15/08/2026"AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds" > AI companies are the fossil fuel industry's best friends. futurism.com/artificial-i... And yet so many people I know in tech keep finding excuses to justify not only using the tech but even working on the tech itselffuturism.comAI's Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper FindsAI is giving the fossil fuel industry a major leg up, a new paper has found, indicating its carbon footprint extends beyond data centers. 711272
Reposted by hckr.studioAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 12/08/2026This is wonderful, but I'd add that the biggest line-item you can absolutely get rid of today is React. Many ways to do so, and they're all a net win. 0193
Reposted by hckr.studioJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026One rhetorical trick AI vendors & boosters use to steamroll over concerns - like the lack of demonstrable ROI - is to paint the LLM future as "inevitable". It doesn't matter that the end product is worse, or that productivity gains are elusive. Go all-in or "get left behind". It is *inevitable* 1134
Reposted by hckr.studioThe Verge @theverge.com · 29/07/2026Google is spending more money than it’s making while facing competitive pressures from Chinese AI tools, as well as pricing pressure to keep the cost of its models low. These pressures aren’t just on Google. They’re on the entire AI ecosystem. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: buff.ly/1ohDmNT 1216834
Reposted by hckr.studioAndy Bell @bell.bz · 29/07/2026reporting emails as spam is doing a civic duty for everyone else because the more spam complaints a sender receives, the bigger impact on their deliverability do your civic duty today and every slop spam email you get, report it as spam 0524
Reposted by hckr.studioRichard Dalton @zx23.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Agile Software Development is NOT break big projects into small sprints. Agile Software Development IS build something, then iterate. I have seen so many teams spend extraordinary effort on the ceremony of Scrum, and never once manage or even try to put some early idea in the hands of users. 1126
Reposted by hckr.studioYep! Type Foundry @yeptype.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I keep 60+ neo-grotesks on hand. Fewer than a third have vertical metrics that actually center a label on a button. Here’s how to spot the ones that do—and 10 Inter and SF alternatives that qualify. yeptype.com/article/inte...yeptype.comHow to choose a UI font (and 10 Inter alternatives)Tired of Inter being everywhere? Two real criteria—cap-centered vertical metrics and a tall x-height—for choosing a UI font, plus 10 alternatives from independent foundries. 2334
Reposted by hckr.studioZombies. The undead. You know, ghouls. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply. 59105313201
Reposted by hckr.studioJan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 22/07/2026I’m surely not the first to come to this realisation, but the LLM industrial complex is to tech-life what MAGA is to politics: erode any and all trust in established institutions, people and practices for the benefit of the very few and worst people on the planet in the (poor) guise of freedom. 312443
Reposted by hckr.studioSmashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · 22/07/2026⚛️ React Server Components don’t send HTML or JSON. They rely on the Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs, but that same mechanism introduces deserialization sinks attackers can exploit. Durgesh Pawar breaks down the CVSS 10.0 “React2Shell” vulnerability: www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/07/weap... 011
Reposted by hckr.studiodbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 16/07/2026I’ve said elsewhere and I don’t care if this bothers some. A LOT of Dems/leftists are just as racist as the right, they just think they’re classier about it. 118450
Reposted by hckr.studioCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing” 594395905
Reposted by hckr.studioJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026We pay lip service to software releases being experiments. If so, then what is your hypothesis? How will you test it? What is the design of your experiment? Collecting usage stats doesn't count. "They took the pills" isn't meaningful data. How will you know if the medicine's working? 291
Reposted by hckr.studioceej @ceej.online · 30/08/2025my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy 344179143654
Reposted by hckr.studioKent Beck @kentbeck.com · 07/07/2026"If these tools are so good, where's all the magic software?" I see more bugs now, in software that was rock solid before. The uncomfortable question: when does that hit something load-bearing? Has it already? 4389
Reposted by hckr.studioZach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 07/07/2026react has been doing hydration breaks since 2013 61056
Reposted by hckr.studioSara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 07/07/2026"AI has stolen the parts of the job that allowed me to get into flow state. Has it done that for you too?" www.tiktok.com/@_kyleshevli... Kyle's experience is why I avoid using AI to do my work. I just don't want to give up my brain, and I don't want it to suck the joy out of the work I love.tiktok.comAI has stolen the parts of the job that allowed me to get into flow state. Has it done that for you too? #AI #softwareengineer TikTok video by kyleshevlin 57313
Reposted by hckr.studioAndy Bell @bell.bz · 30/06/2026womp womp www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukFord rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checksThe car-maker found AI quality checks failed to match the skill of veteran technicians. 4463
Reposted by hckr.studioScott Jehl @scottjehl.com · 24/06/2026love to use my new login to login right after I reset my login 0142
Reposted by hckr.studioAndrea Giammarchi @webreflection.bsky.social · 24/06/2026are you still doing the awkward atob/btoa dance to convert to and from base64? you can stop it now, it's fully supported on modern environments and it can be polyfilled in here: github.com/ungap/base64...github.comGitHub - ungap/base64: Uint8Array.fromBase64 and Uint8Array.prototype.toBase64 polyfill.Uint8Array.fromBase64 and Uint8Array.prototype.toBase64 polyfill. - ungap/base64 022
